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saands · April 22, 2001, 10:57 PM

Romulus
I do not know of any process step in the typical parkerizing process that would rid the substrate of hydrogen. If it concerned you, a simple bake should help drive any hydrogen out of the steel. My guess (just a guess mind you) is that the parkerizing solutions don't have any constituents that would poison the ability of the hydrogen to recombine into H2 and just bubble off. I'm no chemist, though, and I refuse to pretend to be one! I am in the process of putting my first parkerizing rig together. I think that it will be the way to go and I intend on getting a chemical kit from:

http://www.mg34.com/Parkerizing.html

which looks like it will arrive well documented.

Good luck,
Saands

April 22, 2001, 10:57 PM	#6
saands Senior Member Join Date: November 14, 1999 Posts: 1,573	Romulus I do not know of any process step in the typical parkerizing process that would rid the substrate of hydrogen. If it concerned you, a simple bake should help drive any hydrogen out of the steel. My guess (just a guess mind you) is that the parkerizing solutions don't have any constituents that would poison the ability of the hydrogen to recombine into H2 and just bubble off. I'm no chemist, though, and I refuse to pretend to be one! I am in the process of putting my first parkerizing rig together. I think that it will be the way to go and I intend on getting a chemical kit from: http://www.mg34.com/Parkerizing.html which looks like it will arrive well documented. Good luck, Saands